Product Manager, Simulation & Synthetic Environments

Who we are

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards.

As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously.

We are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers. We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams - and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems. We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to build the world‑leading simulation infrastructure required to train, validate, and certify autonomous airborne systems. You will own the roadmap for a full‑spectr um simulation ecosystem-ranging from high‑fidelity Software/Hardware-in-the-Loop (SiL/HiL) engineering environments to large‑scale tactical and operational wargaming scenarios.

You will empower our AI teams to train reinforcement learning agents at scale and enable our engineering teams to verify safety‑critical behaviors before flight. You are responsible for closing the Sim-to-Real gap.

• Platform Strategy: Drive the vision and execution of a unified simulation architecture that scales from single-agent physics validation to multi‑agent swarming mission simulations.
• Infrastructure & Scale: Oversee the development of cloud‑native simulation pipelines for massive‑scale parallel testing and synthetic data generation.
• Integration: Bridge the gap between digital models and physical hardware, ensuring seamless transition across SiL and HiL environments.
• User
  
  Experience:
  
  Build tooling that serves diverse stakeholders—from ML engineers training agents to military operators conducting virtual mission planning.
• Fidelity & Realism: Prioritize roadmap items for sensor modelling, environmental physics, and adversarial behaviours to ensure operational realism.

• Have 10+ years in product management or engineering leadership focused on simulation, game engines, or virtual testing environments.
• Come with proven delivery of complex software infrastructure or simulation platforms (e.g., for ADAS, robotics, or gaming).
• Have a deep understanding of simulation standards, physics engines, and rendering technologies (e.g., Unreal Engine, Unity, customised physics stacks).

Note:

We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under‑represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.

• Experience with DIS/HLA standards or distributed simulation architecture.
• Background in Dev Ops/MLOps for scaling simulation workloads.
• Hands‑on software development experience (Rust, C++, Python).
• Familiarity with verifying and certifying safety‑critical systems via simulation.

• Helsing's work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns.
• The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world.
• Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defence industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental:
  Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward.
• In our domain, success is a matter of order‑of‑magnitude improvements and novel capabilities.…